[Gilgamel]

Ok so I have this English class. It's related to sports, so I assumed it would be some jock-friendly course I could make an easy A in, since I'm a finance major and I could give two shits about the written word. Unfortunately the teacher is a female graduate student whose interest in sports is that she ran cross-country, and who feels we need to write a paper or two a week on comparative advertising, what makes athletes great, and our favorite deodorant. At any rate my latest tribulation is a so called ethnographic research paper. One component of said research paper is that I need to do a survey of between 40 and 100 people. My teacher was so kind as to suggest I make up said survey and print off 100 copies then give it out to people in one of the gigantic auditorium classes. Knowing my fellow classmates as well as I do I know that would not end well as the average return on each twenty surveys handed out would be only one or two, so I instead chose to sit on my ass and give out the survey to a much more entertaining and enlightened group of people: The FoH community!! Besides, what the hell kind of ethnographic survey would it be if I gave all of them to 20 year old college kids? It's a simple survey, you can be as brief or as a verbose as you like. It's fun and easy too!! It's sports related but mainly seems to be a marketing/sociological type course so I put it in general. First five questions have to be general information. If you don't want to reply you could PM me the answers as well. Appreciate it.

1. Age
A) <18
B) 18-24
C) 25-35
D) Old

2. Education
A) High School
B) Some College
C) College Graduate
D) Graduate Degree

3) State/Country
If you live in the US give your state, if you live outside the US give your country. Bonus points to non-US residents.

4) Sex
Male or Female, my summary of the survey only has to be 4 pages so I don't have room to explain any other possible responses :P.

5)Approximate income. If you're comfortable with it. If not that's fine too; beside, it's the internet, just make something up.

Now on to the sports related nonsense.

6) How many hours per week do you spend participating in sports?

7) How many hours a week do you spend watching sports?

8) Does an advertisement with a successful athlete in it make you more/less/no change likely to purchase a product?

9) Do you watch women's sports?

10) Would you be more likely to watch women's sports if the women in question are attractive and/or scantily clad(think beach volleyball, swimming, tennis, etc. Perverts.)

11. Do you care about steroids or is it all just entertainment?

12) Do you feel salaries for professional athletes are too high?

13) If you could be any athlete for one year who would it be?

14) Do you own a sports related item that you never use for its marketed purpose(such as basketball shoes, hiking boots, running shoes, etc)?

15) Do you feel collegiate athletes are students first or athletes first?

16) On how many days of the average week do you wear a sports related article of clothing?

17) Do you consider Mixed Martial Arts a sport?

18) Do you feel professional stadiums/arenas should ever be locally subsidized or funded?

19) Is there anything else you'd like my aspiring professor to know?

That's it. I have so much confidence in the people of FoH that I have waited until less than a week before the final project is due to post my survey.

Edit: Great responses so far, give me 20 more and I can fudge my way through the paper. The sports related clothing question refers to people who buy timberlands because of the look who never hike, people who buy basketball shoes to look hip but can't bounce a ball, etc. The question about how often you wear sports related clothing is in regards to wearing a cap, shirt, jacket, or whatever of a team. Some people are huge sports fans but rarely wear the gear, and some people wear a Yankees cap every day and couldn't name one player.